Megafauna kill sites in South America: A critical review

H Bampi, M Barberi, MS Lima-Ribeiro - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
South America is the continent with the largest amount of megafauna extinctions at the end
of the Pleistocene (∼ 50 genera), but the empirical evidence of megafauna exploitation by …

[HTML][HTML] Megafauna extinctions in the late-Quaternary are linked to human range expansion, not climate change

RT Lemoine, R Buitenwerf, JC Svenning - Anthropocene, 2023 - Elsevier
The Earth has lost approximately half of its large mammal species (≥ 45 kg, one-third of
species≥ 9 kg) over the past 120,000 years, resulting in depauperate megafauna …

[HTML][HTML] Not just for proboscidean hunting: On the efficacy and functions of Clovis fluted points

MI Eren, DJ Meltzer, B Story, B Buchanan… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our article “On the efficacy of Clovis fluted points for hunting proboscideans”(Eren et al.,
2021), sought to assess whether these stone points were, as conventional wisdom had it …

[HTML][HTML] A New Approach to the Quantitative Analysis of Bone Surface Modifications: the Bowser Road Mastodon and Implications for the Data to Understand Human …

ER Otárola-Castillo, MG Torquato, TL Keevil… - … Method and Theory, 2023 - Springer
Toward the end of the Pleistocene, the world experienced a mass extinction of megafauna.
In North America these included its proboscideans—the mammoths and mastodons …

Cauca: megafaunal and felid fossils (Mammalia) from a Pleistocene site in northwest Venezuela

JD Carrillo-Briceño, D Ruiz-Ramoni, R Sánchez… - Fossil Record, 2024 - zora.uzh.ch
Numerous surveys and three excavation and surface collection field seasons resulted in the
discovery of numerous megafaunal remains and that of a medium-sized felid in a new site …

Inaccurate ideas as stimuli to learn about the world: the ODK culture and spiral fractures of bones

RL Lyman - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2023 - Springer
In the 1950s, medical doctor Raymond Dart proposed an ancient osteodontokeratic (ODK)
culture of australopithecines to explain disparate frequencies of mammalian skeletal parts …